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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
May. 25, 2001
Nobuo Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiichi Kito, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotaka Kaneko, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Hosono, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet printer forms an image frame in a continuous recording sheet at a size PL with reference to a feeding direction. The continuous recording sheet includes plural recording sheets, and a splicing portion for splicing the plural recording sheets to one another in one line. In ink jet printing, the image frame is printed to the continuous recording sheet with a printing bead while the continuous recording sheet is fed in the feeding direction. It is detected whether the splicing portion comes past a predetermined position upstream from the printing head at a distance L1. The printing head is inhibited from printing the image frame if an unavailable region including the splicing portion is estimated to overlap on a region of the image frame according to a detection signal from the detecting step.